Cool/Obscure Arcade-Only games

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Cool/Obscure Arcade-Only games Anonymous Wed Jul 8 11:36:56 2020 No.6582736 [Reply] [Original]

what are some cool/fun/noteworthy games that only ever came out on the arcade? any genre, beat em up, shooter, puzzle, racing, anything. preferably from mid-90s to early-00s

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 11:38:17 2020 No.6582740 File: 27 KB, 480x360, 1594222692172.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Magical Crystals

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 11:39:42 2020 No.6582743
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getting the ball rolling with some of my favorites:

The Maze of the Kings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd6yWWfQMVg
Night Slashers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8j6u2GTkJw
The First Funky Fighter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDluPev0BPQ
Mach Breakers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFugiDuY3W0
Scud Hammer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkNg8yA0ys8

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 11:42:16 2020 No.6582748
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SpikeOut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnW5rZYQMX8
AB Cop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6njLXs-K2Ww
Mile Smile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3wiFe0OBAE
Battle Tryst https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vISs4UlgHDU
DynaGear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzkZMMnXjVQ

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 13:13:03 2020 No.6582931

>>6582736
>what are some cool/fun/noteworthy games that only ever came out on the arcade?
I remember way back in the early 90s I went on a road trip with my family and we stopped at a truck stop. parents gave me a couple quarters to play a video game while we ate lunch there. played a coyote vs roadrunner game that i have never seen before or since.

Promptly lost the game because (iirc) you were supposed to either catch the roadrunner or create traps for it and I sucked at it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 13:28:13 2020 No.6582970 >>6582748 What's the difference between Spikeout and the FINAL edition? Cool reccomends

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 13:38:56 2020 No.6582987
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>>6582736
Tokkae Puzzle Dama -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uth7Z7D8Vws
Taisen Tanto-R Sashissu!! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XuHTte8ZO0
Paca Paca Passion series - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZO6DF98sX4
Azumanga Daioh Puzzle Bobble - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-n95sAoQOU

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 13:41:38 2020 No.6582994 File: 856 KB, 468x468, C84D5AC8-4114-452C-8498-EA93F0752858.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6582736 It’s a beat em’ up

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 13:45:42 2020 No.6583001 File: 697 KB, 1022x767, NUT.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6582736 I remember I once saw someone do a cheat to unlock a surfer in Top Skater, it blew my mind and made my pp big.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 13:46:57 2020 No.6583002 >>6582970 NVM, apparently it doesn't work on MAME

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 14:07:30 2020 No.6583056 Cannon Dancer Osman. Better than Strider in any way possible.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 14:08:38 2020 No.6583060 File: 144 KB, 830x567, Osman_flyer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6583056 Forgot pic.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 14:10:18 2020 No.6583068 >>6583002 I got it working on DEmul

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 14:24:03 2020 No.6583093 >>6583068 Yoooo, thanks mate.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 16:47:55 2020 No.6583412 >>6582736 Toy fighters grab system is whack Also impressed Sega managed to make a fighting game more forgettable than Last Bronx

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 18:55:04 2020 No.6583757 >>6582743 nice stuff

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 19:51:11 2020 No.6584001

>>6582748
Interesting, I played SpikeOut at Anata no Warehouse on its last day of operations. I didn't know it was arcade-exclusive, seemed to me like an easy DC port. Maybe it wasn't successful, didn't really capture my fascination the way that, say, Dynamite Deka did.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 19:55:58 2020 No.6584028

>>6583001
I had no idea how to play top skater

Sega has so many fucking arcade exclusives. It boggles the mind. Three that stick out to me are Jambo Safari, Brave Firefighters, and Outrunners. I think there was also a hospital game they made around the time of Brave Firefighters, but I've never played it. I just know Jambo and especially Brave have a reputation for being pretty rare. The latter apparently breaks down a lot.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 20:03:45 2020 No.6584061 >>6582736 Trying to make a YouTube video?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 20:08:04 2020 No.6584093 >>6584061 Kids these days love clicking on videos about obscure arcades.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 20:30:12 2020 No.6584192 >>6584028 >see brave firefighters in the worlds deadest mall tucked in the corner of a former aladdins castle >it's broken

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 20:44:18 2020 No.6584253

>>6584028
>I just know Jambo and especially Brave have a reputation for being pretty rare.
Jambo Safari isn't rare. At all. It was common as all hell back in the day and you can still find it pretty easily in older big arcades that still have games sitting around from that era (mainly places like Minigolf, Amusement parks, and bigger casino arcades). Brave Firefighters it was common enough that you can still run into them occasionally, on the off chance there's someone who knows how to maintain them working there.

Emergency Call Ambulance, on the other hand. That one is really fucking rare in the wild. I've been to hundreds of arcades in the past few years and I've only seen it at one arcade in Chicago. I wanna say it was at a place called Safari Land, but there were like three kids' party places with big arcades there that all run together in my mind.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 20:55:09 2020 No.6584286 >>6584253 (by the way, if you're in Chicago, there are FOUR working Brave Firefighters machines over there)

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 03:10:26 2020 No.6585404 File: 2.92 MB, 256x224, riot first stage.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6582736 Riot Alligator Hunt TH Strikes Back

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 05:18:49 2020 No.6585636 >>6582736 The throw mechanics in that game are great.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 05:52:15 2020 No.6585678 >>6582736 can we list all the non capcom/snk fighting games?

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 07:56:16 2020 No.6585848
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>>6584001
>seemed to me like an easy DC port
this. a Spikeout game did eventually come to the original Xbox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i26OKcdZ44 in that bizarre start of the Xbox's life where it got tons of exclusive random Japanese games. the spiritual sequel/spinoff Slashout was also arcade exclusive

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 08:05:38 2020 No.6585867

>>6584061
no, just love finding neat obscure stuff and feel i've exhausted my search for hidden gems on the likes of PS1, Saturn, Dreamcast, etc. Arcade is like the wild west though, feels like it'd be nigh-on impossible to find a comprehensive list of all arcade games released in all regions like you more easily can with home consoles. i'm baffled by some of the games i linked there in the first few posts having never got any home port so a lot of neat stuff gets lost to obscurity

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 08:14:16 2020 No.6585875 >>6585867 Ok im sure ill see a youtube video tomorrow buddy

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 08:17:49 2020 No.6585884

>try to emulate arcade
>nothing is clear
>spend time hunting down bios
>finally launch
>cant bind controls to my gamepad no matter what(only emulator ive ever had this problem)
>nothing online
>tfw filtered
Wish there were an easy way to emulate arcade games

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 09:51:01 2020 No.6586089 >>6585884 it is easy

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 10:07:52 2020 No.6586121 >>6584253 I Played Emergency ambulance...also Mr Driller comes to mind...any body remember '"the Grid" by midway? 3rd person shooter? Custom characters and a alphanumeric keypad code save system? This was early oughts

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 11:38:05 2020 No.6586301 >>6586121 The Grid is a shitload of fun to play even today if you can find a good working setup

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 11:43:25 2020 No.6586307 File: 150 KB, 558x601, 8.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] For me, it's OutRunners

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 13:59:49 2020 No.6586640 >>6585678 Daraku Tenchi

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 18:57:40 2020 No.6587556

>>6586121
Yeah, it was one of Midway's very last arcade games (I think only Arctic Thunder was later). I know Galloping Ghost has a full 6 player setup, but they've been gaining popularity in other "pay 10 bucks at the door" places that specialize in games from that era. I think the machine being so damn popular at Galloping Ghost is the reason.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 20:15:20 2020 No.6587729 >>6586089 I wish buddy

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 06:31:23 2020 No.6588827 How do you play 3D arcade games from post 2000? Can you emulate those games?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 06:45:33 2020 No.6588860 >>6588827 You can. But you need a good machine. Demul emulates most of Sega's more obscure 3D arcade machines with variable results. There are separate emulators for Model 2 and Model 3 games.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 06:47:59 2020 No.6588869 >>6588860 How good are we talking? Would modern integrated graphics cut it or would you need to go discrete?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 08:45:21 2020 No.6589071 >>6584028 Outrunners got ported to Genesis dude

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:29:12 2020 No.6589391

>>6588827
Alright, so here's the deal with late 90s/early 00s games. Early 90s games are (usually) simple enough that they're not difficult to emulate. In the mid-late 00s, arcade games switched over to PC-based hardware, that lets them run natively on PCs with a bit of security removal. Now, the era between that is the problem. The games from that period are pretty complex (and late 90s games, in particular, tend to be pretty unorthodox since 3D engines weren't standardized yet).

So basically, if you want to emulate anything from that era, you've just gotta hope someone's put in the legwork to make them work. Some of the more notable boards like the Model 3 have dedicated emulators. Others, like the Naomi and whichever board DDR Supernova ran on, were based on home console hardware so they can be emulated using the already-existing technology built to emulate those console's games. If you wanna play something more obscure whose hardware is uncommon enough that nobody's bothered to get it working for a different game, you're just shit out of luck.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:44:44 2020 No.6589456 >>6589391 >DDR Supernova it's a PS2

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:47:03 2020 No.6589465 >>6582743 >when you see karen

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:57:44 2020 No.6589507 >>6582736 Willow https://youtu.be/9zSIXNse3t4 SegaSonic the Hedgehog https://youtu.be/mr6M_4_CYbs

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 14:38:55 2020 No.6589932 >>6583001 is that crazy taxi 2?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 15:13:52 2020 No.6590024 >>6585875 rent free

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Anonymous Fri Jul 10 16:46:27 2020 No.6590286

>>6584253
Interesting. I've seen Jambo Safari once at an amusement park, and I've heard of a brave firefighters at a Chuck'e'Cheese of all places (sourcing info from people in my state), but you're right, never heard of the hospital one being easy to find. Also, never seen but one of those two I mentioned, and heard they were about that rare in general. Guess I'll keep an eye out for Jambo more places.

Not that rare maybe, but I'm bummed that the only place that I knew which had outrun 2 super deluxe shut down. I have no idea what happened to that machine. Fucker was problematic for repair but it was amazing to play when it worked.

Likewise, 2 Spicy was so cool. I saw a 2-player setup and played it only once. Real shame, that game was so cool.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 16:49:30 2020 No.6590293 >>6584286 Got a map of where they are? >>6585404 Reminds me of the future LA scenes in terminator >>6585848 Japan had such a weird set of Xbox games. Crackdown was a trip. I hear even more were in the doujin scene but I haven't played any.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 16:53:33 2020 No.6590304 >>6589071 Not a very good port though

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 17:16:13 2020 No.6590367

>>6590286
>Outrun2
The only surviving Outrun2SPDX machine I know of is in Denver, in a high-end bowling alley next door to Coyote Ugly, of all places. It's possible one of the three Gameworks I haven't been to still has one sitting around, but I kind of doubt it.
>2 Spicy
That game might as well have been Gameworks exclusive, given how damn few of them got shipped anywhere else. I know Tilt Studios bought up a bunch of old Gameworks locations and more or less kept the games the same, so you can still find it in a few of those, too. I've heard a few of them have recently surfaced at Round1s, too.
>>6590293
>Got a map of where they are?
Galloping Ghost, Gameworks, Safari Land, and... the fourth escapes my mind at the moment. There were four when I went a year ago, but I can't promise they're all still around. Also be sure to check out Nickle City if you're in the area. It's a tiny, shitty-ass arcade in a strip mall that feels like it crawled out of 2003. They've got a row of shit in the back like Tech Romancer, Megaman The Power Fighters, and WWF Wrestlefest that all look like they've just been sitting there for the last 20 years.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 17:22:31 2020 No.6590390 >>6590152 They made a game about this? Goddamn

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 17:34:47 2020 No.6590423 >>6590152 That's pretty obscure

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 17:42:53 2020 No.6590435 >>6583346 Pac Xon

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 18:01:27 2020 No.6590495
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Outfoxies by Namco. Can essentially be called the grandfather of Smash Bros., as a hybrid platformer/fighter with elaborate stages full of hazards and weapon/item drops.

Anonymous Sat Jul 11 03:34:14 2020 No.6591930

heavy smash
https://youtu.be/2QCD8u-3YTw

Joe & Mac Retruns
https://youtu.be/b00R5Yis14I

road of the sword
https://youtu.be/ScVrbLVw9a0

oriental legend 2
https://youtu.be/NC98BsGXV-g

super dodgeball
https://youtu.be/NKyAUOng7ew

oni ninja master
https://youtu.be/Ofw8jZUp-q4

zero team 2000
https://youtu.be/zhM3a1rghfU

demon front
https://youtu.be/FojNKSZWX4U

mad shark
https://youtu.be/7ikbiABYriA

Hang-Zo
https://youtu.be/QHI0oak1Tas

devil world
https://youtu.be/gSRH2qXpcL8

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 03:43:43 2020 No.6591951 gun ball https://youtu.be/Tsp6-XBm2_o real break https://youtu.be/h3VNfc64sPE don den lover https://youtu.be/F3CEZsE3Frk P-47 Aces https://youtu.be/YryHtqVkOBk Shadow Force https://youtu.be/bykZ0qK29mY

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 04:13:05 2020 No.6592002 >>6590390 AFAIK this indeed is the one and only game that spawned from this manga.

Anonymous Sat Jul 11 09:54:44 2020 No.6592539
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>>6591930
>>6591951
cool stuff anon

some more:

The Crystal of Kings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mKYwnJs87I
Evil Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCO9Cq0tYJg
Cool Riders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaTnBljx8Qo
Riding Fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DLBWmaOOO0
Crusher Makochan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOZr9gidNj0
Jingi Storm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOlfmdOqwCM
the fighting game where each character has an accompanying waifu that doesn't seem to do anything other than show a mildly lewd pic after you've beaten them

also cheating a bit since this did eventually get ported to Japanese PSN only, but Chaos Breaker/Dark Awake is a neat fighting game with RPG elements https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crI1Q0IqOeU

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 10:42:56 2020 No.6592587 File: 1.74 MB, 298x248, giphy.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6592539 >Crusher Makochan

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 12:13:19 2020 No.6592814 Pistol Daimyo no Bōken https://youtu.be/TxqR3f1NRy4

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 21:07:00 2020 No.6594232 File: 2.98 MB, 640x480, Spank 'Em aka Boonga Boonga.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6582736

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 21:15:49 2020 No.6594268 >>6594232 >child molester Well, I guess some people are into spanking pedophiles.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 21:17:57 2020 No.6594275 >>6594232 Incredible artistic rendering of the human experience. I am touched to my very soul. Thank you.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 21:24:38 2020 No.6594317 >>6594232 How many slaps per coin do you get? If I buy this and modify an onahole into it, how long would the child molester last?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 12 00:27:14 2020 No.6594838 >>6586121 The Grid was so good. Me and my friends used to know all the character codes.

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